Philadelphia
Urban gardening efforts grow at city’s second largest homeless shelter
Volunteers from local businesses and non-profits got down and dirty this week to expand a small plot of land in Northwest Philadelphia th ...
14 years ago
Chestnut Hill Community Association endorses expansion plan for Greene Street Consignment
Chestnut Hill Community Association on Thursday night will back Greene Street Consignment’s amended plan to expand its building int ...
14 years ago
Rich Boris takes us back in time at his vintage kitchen and collectibles shop on Ridge
Standing in the midst of thousands of old kitchen appliances, house wares, Life Magazines, and tchotchkes, Rich Boris lovingly refers to ...
14 years ago
Historic parade to bid a final farewell to three of Manayunk’s closing churches
One hundred and eighty-two years ago, a Sunday school teacher in Manayunk launched a Fourth of July parade and picnic celebration that wo ...
14 years ago
Highlights from Thursday’s final City Council session
After voting “Aye” to legislation that would allocate tax revenues for the cash-strapped and otherwise beleaguered Philadelph ...
14 years ago
Northwest Philadelphia residents and officials react to health care ruling
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold health care reform with a 5-4 vote. Under the individual mandate, nearly all Americans woul ...
14 years ago
Disappointed over AVI failure, Nutter notes positives of City Council budget
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says he’s not wild about the budget sent to him by City Council, but says it has some good points ...
14 years ago
Photos from the Hezekiah Jones concert in Pastorius Park
The band Hezekiah Jones performed Wednesday night in Pastorius Park in the Ches ...
14 years ago
Friends of Jenks will appear at tonight’s CHCA meeting
The newly created fundraising arm of the J.S. Jenks Home and School Association will provide an update on its efforts to the full board o ...
14 years ago
Tax cut for Philadelphia’s poor repealed
A tax cut for low-income Philadelphians scheduled to go into effect in 2016 has been repealed. The tax credit was championed by la ...
14 years ago
In ‘true compromise,’ Philadelphia City Council approves budget
Philadelphia City Council has given final approval to its budget. After weeks of debate, Council Thursday passed a budget that inc ...
14 years ago
Olney man wanted in a pair of GameStop robberies
Philadelphia Police are searching for an Olney man who is believed to be behind two recent robberies at two different GameStop locations ...
14 years ago
Wired Beans to hold soft opening this Saturday
Robert Wheeler is all too familiar with the culture that now pervades Germantown’s commercial corridors. He grew up in the neighbor ...
14 years ago
As of Sunday, St. Vincent de Paul Church will be Germantown’s lone Catholic parish
Soon, it will all come full circle. Soon, there will just be one. Beginning Sunday, St. Vincent de Paul Church in Germantown will ...
14 years ago
This Saturday, shop locally under the new “Schuykill Tapestry” painted Twin Bridges for East Falls Farmers Market from 10 a.m ...
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